School Travel Planning is a collaborative process with the goal of increasing the use of active transportation modes for students travelling to and from school. With its focus on community collaboration to tackle the root causes of transportation challenges, the School Travel Planning model has been used with success in other parts of Canada and throughout the world.

The process itself involves community-level input from various stakeholders via the Steering Committee (comprised of District-level staff including planners, engineers, bylaw enforcement, and community stakeholders such as RCMP, Vancouver Coastal Health, other community groups and the individual School Committees (students, principals, parents, teachers). An STP Facilitator leads the process by convening the committees and facilitating the various steps and actions which lead to the School Travel Plan. The entire process usually takes about one year to complete with a number of overlapping and flexible stages to allow for changes and opportunities as they emerge.